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Simon Institute for Longterm Governance
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Global catastrophic risk
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History of existential risk
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Major UN report discusses existential risk and future generations (summary)
finm
1y
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Case for emergency response teams
Gavin
8mo
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Briefly, the life of Tetsu Nakamura (1946-2019)
Emrik
2mo
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Humanities Research Ideas for Longtermists
Lizka
1y
13
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What Helped the Voiceless? Historical Case Studies
Mauricio
2y
16
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Bibliography of EA writings about fields and movements of interest to EA
Pablo
10mo
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Protest movements: How effective are they?
James Ozden
4mo
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GCRs mitigation: the missing Sustainable Development Goal
AmAristizabal
1y
7
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Why do social movements fail: Two concrete examples.
NunoSempere
3y
16
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A case for the effectiveness of protest
James Ozden
1y
26
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Has Life Gotten Better?
Holden Karnofsky
1y
23
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Update on the Simon Institute: Year One
konrad
8mo
9
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Some history topics it might be very valuable to investigate
MichaelA
2y
34
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Podcast: The Left and Effective Altruism with Habiba Islam
Garrison
1mo
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Are you really in a race? The Cautionary Tales of Szilárd and Ellsberg
HaydnBelfield
7mo
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135
The most important climate change uncertainty
cwa
4mo
27
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[Crosspost]: Huge volcanic eruptions: time to prepare (Nature)
Mike Cassidy
4mo
1
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On the assessment of volcanic eruptions as global catastrophic or existential risks
Mike Cassidy
1y
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Nuclear Preparedness Guide
Fin
9mo
13
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Venn diagrams of existential, global, and suffering catastrophes
MichaelA
2y
7
54
The catastrophic primacy of reactivity over proactivity in governmental risk assessment: brief UK case study
JuanGarcia
1y
0
50
What can we learn from a short preview of a super-eruption and what are some tractable ways of mitigating it
Mike Cassidy
10mo
0
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AMA: Seth Baum, Global Catastrophic Risk Institute
SethBaum
1y
24
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The future of nuclear war
turchin
7mo
2
31
[Podcast] Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk
finm
1y
2
29
Nuclear Espionage and AI Governance
GAA
1y
3
29
Should longtermists focus more on climate resilience?
Richard Ren
7mo
15
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The impact of the war in Ukraine on climate risk and what this means for high-impact climate philanthropy
jackva
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